He is talking about: his way to Moscow University, about Sakharov the student and graduate student, socio-political environment, FIAN in 1940s, relationships in the community of mathematicians and physicists, prominent Soviet scientists I. Tamm, I. Gelfand, A. Kolmogorov, D. Ivanenko, etc.

Akiva Moiseevich Yaglom, a mathematical physicists and expert in theory of turbulence, was born in 1921. He was a class-mate of Andrei Skharov in Moscow University and contacted him in late 40's in the Physical Institute of Soviet Academy of Sciences (FIAN).